Every new year brings a new round of great music for us to enjoy for decades to come, but few can boast having as good a release catalogue as the year 1979. Maybe folks were trying to squeeze the last ...

Popular music was splintering in about a dozen directions as the '70s came to an end. The decade's buildups of pop, rock, new wave, punk, disco, soul and any number of variations on those genres ...

The former Beatle addressed theories that his 1979 holiday tune “Wonderful Christmastime” encourages witchcraft and wizardry.

New artists crowded the charts, every song was an earworm and self-indulgent rockers were out, all while technology was paving the way for streaming Singer Debbie Harry of Blondie in 1979 Its subtitle ...

Watching this clip of 20-year-old Al Yankovic playing “My Bologna” at California Polytechnic State University college in late 1979, it’s very easy to understand why his fellow students started calling ...

All this week, Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music, and exactly what they meant for the genre. Like any good structure, goth is built on the foundations of other previous ...

This live set from 1979 opens, appropriately, with the vintage “Blossom” from 1970’s Sweet Baby James, and is of particular interest to Taylor aficionados for its inclusion of several tracks from Flag ...

Today Apple is almost certain to announce, at the very least, a new, taller iPod Nano. But amidst the hype surrounding the "Let's Rock" event, it's easy to get so caught up in the iPod's future that ...

It includes some incredible, head-turning music too. This Googoosh collection – she’s variously also known as Gogosh, Gusgus, Googosh and so on – reveals a singer who initially sounds superficially ...

Pre-1979 Iranian pop is largely unfamiliar outside the country itself and the expat community. Googoosh isn't the only Iranian singer in LA, others include Shohreh Solaty, Mansour and Bijan Mortazavi.